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Homemade is better? For who?

I don’t know why I do this to myself every year. I get some idea in my head for cute Valentines for my kids to give out so I hit the craft store and buy all the necessary stuff. And then I make the food to go inside (because it’s Texas, a lawless frontier where you are allowed to do crazy things like give out homemade foodat school. In most states that’s illegal) and I quickly realize that I have bitten off more than I can chew. It wouldn’t be so bad except I have four children giving out Valentines (the one nice thing about Middle School: no Valentines!)

But I’ve made the food and have all the stuff, so I drink a bunch of caffeine and hunker down with my hole punches and glassine bags and curse my stupidity.

Three hours later I have seventy of these nice little Valentines, complete with heart-shaped chocolate chip cookies.

I’ve learned my lesson, though. Next year I’ll glue a mini candy bar to a Spiderman Valentine and call it good. Just you wait and see.

P.S. For perfect heart-shaped cookies, bake your cookie dough in a pan then cut out shapes after it’s cooled. It helps if you grease your pan then flip the whole thing out onto the counter before using your cookie cutters.

Wow. Most impressive! I may copy the heart-shaped chocolate chip part for the gals I VT. Very cute. Just roll out the dough and cut right? How did you do the scalloped edge on the paper? Very nice touch. You are amazing!